Back in my student days (christ that makes me sound old, it was only a few months ago!) I did a fair bit of…conoisseuring, shall we say, of alcoholic beverages. Rum was never one that I tried, due to a slightly bad experience with it as a slightly younger teen. Raisin is something that I feel by now most of you will be aware that I frankly dislike. And so when I saw rum and raisin Pocky I figured it’d make perfect sense for me to buy it!

The rum and raisin combo has always intrigued me a little bit, and I really couldn’t pass up the opportunity to not only see Japan’s take on it, but specifically how it work when turned into yoghurt-paste like form and slathered on some biscuit sticks.

And so like yesterday’s marble Pocky we have these. The sticks are, as you can see from the box, white with a purple marble effect. Again like yesterday there are three packs in the box and three sticks in each pack.

The taste is…strange. It definitely tastes of rum, it’s like being able to taste the kick that it gives you, only without the kick, which is a rather strange experience. There’s nothing warm or alcohol-like about these, it’s simply flavour. The raisin…oh yeah, there was raisin wasn’t there? Yeah I totally forgot because I couldn’t taste any, not that I’ve ever been able to really taste raisins even when I’m eating the damn things by themselves.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy this. It’s definitely piqued my interest in rum and raisin and makes me kinda want to taste it in fudge form. Like yesterday’s review, if you can find these then they’re well worth trying.